Dave James
Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window. He first started writing for Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World many decades ago, then moved onto PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 among others. Now he's back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck.
Latest articles by Dave James
1440p is the absolute gaming sweet spot [fight me] and this $150 Prime Day gaming monitor deal is great value, but for just $6.77 more another cheap screen has my heart
By Dave James published
Prime Day deals No Prime membership required to bag this 1440p Acer Nitro monitor for a great price, but the ASRock is far brighter.
Prime members can bag the cheapest 34-inch LG ultrawide I've ever seen. The damned thing's just $237 right now
By Dave James published
Prime Day deals If you're in Jeff's Amazon gang you've got dibs on a mighty fine wide-boi gaming monitor.
With its healthy price drop, this is the affordable 4K OLED gaming monitor I'd buy this Prime Day
By Dave James published
Prime Day deals The MSI MAG 321UP has pared back some unnecessary specs and features to leave a stunning 32-inch 4K OLED gaming panel that's just $760.
I reckon Alienware has already dropped the best October Prime Day gaming PC deal with this inexplicably cheap RTX 4070 Ti Super rig
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Prime Day deals Alienware has slashed the price of its Aurora R16 even more over the weekend, just in time for the Big Deal Days this week.
The best mini-ITX PC case in 2024: the top tiny cases I've tested to date
By Dave James last updated
Mini but Mighty Go compact and cute with the best mini-ITX PC cases.
Best wireless gaming mouse in 2024: These are the rodents I love getting my mitts on
By Dave James last updated
Unbound Let go of the tethers and embrace the freedom of living life cable-free.
The latest Nvidia RTX 5090 specs rumour makes the ol' RTX 4090 look like a goddam clown card
By Dave James published
news Who's going to buy a new GPU for the rest of the year with these things looming large?
The best wireless gaming earbuds in 2024
By Dave James last updated
Budding gamers So you finally managed to bag a Steam Deck or ROG Ally, now what are the best gaming earbuds to go with it?
Best graphics card for laptops in 2024: the mobile GPUs I'd want in my next gaming laptop
By Dave James published
Go mobile Helping you pick the right graphics silicon for your next laptop purchase.
The holy THOCK of Awekeys' Full Metal Keycaps cannot make up for the fact that I'm a terrible typist
By Dave James published
Fully🤘Metal They're all metal, all the time. But the blank set has frustrated me, and the premium price is hard to swallow despite their utterly premium feel.
The best left-handed mouse for gaming in 2024
By Dave James last updated
Lefties Shopping for the best left-handed mouse for gaming doesn't have to mean wading through right-handed options that might just work.
Dezctop Bifrost Elite 160 gaming desk review
By Dave James published
Stay Frosty A sturdy standing desk, but it's got a fight on its hands trying to topple Secretlab's mighty Magnus.
Looks like Intel has quietly killed the 20A process, announcing that no Arrow Lake chip will use its first Angstron Era node
By Dave James published
news The Intel 20A process seems like it's going to go down in history as purely a test platform for backside power and GAAFET.
Possibly one of the cutest and definitely the cheapest way to bag an RTX 4070 GPU this Labor Day
By Dave James published
deal A heavy splash of RGB and a powder pink shroud... I'd say that's worth another 10% higher frame rate, right?
Labor Day PC gaming deals 2024: the best bargains available today
By Dave James last updated
Labor Day Treat yourself this Labor Day with some great savings on gaming monitors, laptops, and the latest PC hardware.
No other laptop maker would let me cannibalise the best bit of its new machine the way Framework does and that's a damned shame
By Dave James published
🦄 The new Framework laptop display is exactly why I love its products.
This Nvidia GPU paired with one of the best AMD Zen 4 CPUs feels like we're finally getting the sub-$1,000 gaming PCs we deserve
By Dave James published
deal With RTX 4060 Ti and Ryzen 7 7700 silicon inside, this is peak $1,000 PC.
Framework 13 (Intel Core Ultra Series 1) laptop review
By Dave James published
Step back Lots of improvements, but fundamentally a weaker proposition than the Ryzen mainboard.
New SteamOS beta hints at an imminent general install with ROG Ally support added
By Dave James published
news "Added support for extra ROG Ally keys" is music to my ears.
I can't decide which of these $2,000 RTX 4080 Super gaming PCs I'd rather pick *checks feed* oh wait, yeah it'll be the AMD one
By Dave James published
deal The fact that an RTX 4080 Super gaming PC for under $2,000 isn't an isolated incident is pleasing.
How to add DLSS and Frame Generation to Starfield
By Dave James last updated
Upmarket upscaling As well as whether you should...
Best CPU coolers in 2024: I've loaded these AIO and air coolers onto today's top CPUs
By Dave James last updated
Cool Breeze Our picks for the best CPU coolers will have your processor running cool with air or liquid during the hottest gaming sessions.
Best VPN for gaming in 2024
By Abigail Shannon last updated
Stealth Mode Prevent DDoS attacks, secure your devices, boost your speed, and get games for bargain prices – all with a gaming VPN. Here are my top picks.
The 11 Prime Day PC gaming deals that have been the most popular with you fine PC Gamer readers
By Dave James published
Prime Day Crunching the numbers and parsing the data, we've finally figured out what it is you lot like: a lot of headsets, 4K monitors, and gaming chairs. And, of course, the best gaming laptop.
Inexplicably Best Buy has slashed the price of this RTX 4070 Blade 14 AGAIN. With a $1,000 discount this Prime Day Razer gaming laptop deal is surprisingly competitive
By Jeremy Laird last updated
Prime Day A Blade that's actually not at a price premium compared with similarly specced laptops? What timeline is this?
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